Orange County

[Caliga]

Neither did the gays. 

[Admiral Yi]

I never knew you were gay.

If Walt says it's gay day, Cal knows what he has to do.

[Eddie Teach]

This weekend is gay days or something at Disneyland.  My butt hurts. 

I never knew you were gay.

He did have a gay porn star in his avatar for a couple years.

[Caliga]

He was gay for pay.  It's an important distinction. 

[grumbler]

Cal, you are in top form in this thread.  Well-played, and please keep it up.

[Ideologue]

If you ran into Peter North at a gas station, would you eat a hot dog with him before you rejected his job application, or after, sort of like a consolation prize?  What if we were wearing a leather skirt?

[CountDeMoney]

If you ran into Peter North at a gas station, would you eat a hot dog with him before you rejected his job application, or after, sort of like a consolation prize?  What if we were wearing a leather skirt?

Excellent summation of all relevant Cal memes past and present;  however, you failed to include the requisite Glock malfunction reference.

[Ed Anger]

MAH FRONT SIGHTS

[Ideologue]

MAH CUMSHOT MISSED

[grumbler]

If you ran into Peter North at a gas station, would you eat a hot dog with him before you rejected his job application, or after, sort of like a consolation prize?  What if we were wearing a leather skirt?

Excellent summation of all relevant Cal memes past and present;  however, you failed to include the requisite Glock malfunction reference.

And tits.  No tits reference means it isn't Cal.

[Caliga]

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

On Saturday, we went to Disneyland.  But before we got there, I pulled the ultimate old man maneuver and slipped and fell in the shower.  In an attempt to brace my fall I grabbed the towel bar and swung around on it with the full weight of my body pulling at my shoulder before I managed to recover.  In the process, I either tore a muscle in my arm or my rotator cuff, and now I can't lift my arm above my head anymore (or at least not without severe pain).

So we went to Disneyland and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to climb in and out of rides and also to patronize rides that like to wrench you around.  Probably not the wisest of choices.

Rides I patronized and my reviews:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Rode it twice.  Not because I loved it so much, but because the first time I wrote it I sat behind this cunt who kept yelling at her kids and fidgeting, so she was a giant distraction and I felt like I missed a lot.  I think the Disneyland version is longetr than the Disney World version.

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: More like "Mr. Toad's Super Gay Ride."

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh:  I learned that Pooh's main enemies are these elephant dudes with bat wings for ears who I guess are evil somehow.

The Haunted Mansion:  They changed it up for Halloween.  Right now it's themed after Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.  I love the 'real' Haunted Mansion so that pissed me off.

It's A Small World:  You know, every time I visit a Disney Park I end up riding this piece of crap.  For some reason lots of people love it but I don't get why.  It looks like it hasn't been updated since Nixon was in office and isn't much more than a bunch of papier mache dolls singing 'It's a Small World' in a bunch of different languages.  I guess it must appeal to old people trying to relive their childhoods? 

Jungle Cruise:  Pretty much the same as Disney World's Jungle Cruise even down to the lame jokes the operators tell.  This one seemed better than the one at Disney World though, I think because Disney World has Animal Kingdom with the safari ride with real animals, instead of fake animatronic ones.

[Ideologue]

If you ran into Peter North at a gas station, would you eat a hot dog with him before you rejected his job application, or after, sort of like a consolation prize?  What if we were wearing a leather skirt?

Excellent summation of all relevant Cal memes past and present;  however, you failed to include the requisite Glock malfunction reference.

And tits.  No tits reference means it isn't Cal.

First, assume tits.

[Caliga]

Pinocchio's Daring Journey:

Enchanted Tiki Room:  Another thing that's identical to Disney World, and equally lame.

Indiana Jones Adventure: I hate these sorts of 'thrill rides', and Princesca always manages to trick me into riding them anyway by 'forgetting' the details about them.  Though I don't like being jostled around, this one actually was kind of cool unlike that lameass Dinosaur one at Disney World.

Finding Nemo Submarine Adventure:  This one isn't at Disney World, which is a shame because it's actually pretty cool and I miss the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ride there.  In this one, you get in this fake sub (it's actually a semi-submersible) and ride around in a fake coral reef, some underwater canyon, and some other thing I forget.  Since it's Disney, they always have to tie it into something they think might sell toys so there were little references to Finding Nemo all over the place, but it did really feel like you were in a sub looking out a porthole into the ocean.

Star Tours:  Rode it twice.  Still have never been the Rebel Spy.

[Caliga]

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS:

Disneyland kind of sucks compared to Disney World, to be honest.  It's WAY more crowded and just seems a lot less organized.  Also, the PA systems suck as whenever people announced something, no matter where you were or what it was, you could NOT hear it at all.  All of the food places were chaotic and it took forever to get your food.

Another interesting thing I noticed was that almost every young couple consisted of a white dude and a Mexican or Asian chick, many of whom had kids.  America's future.   I would say the majority of people there in general were non-white.  Less fat people here than at Disney World, too, and way less people on those annoying scooter things knocking everyone else over.  For some strange reason all of the old Asian ladies wore accountants' visors.

Also, it is nicer to spend a lot of time at Disneyland due to the low humidity; on Sunday it was 94 but the humidity was 7%, so you don't end up drenched in sweat and when you get wet on a ride, you pretty much dry out within a few minutes.

For lunch I had a chili burger at the Hungry Bear restaurant.  I also had a chili cheese dog the day before.  They seem to like to slop chili onto everything here, which I'm certainly not upset about.   For dinner we ate at The Blue Bayou, which is actually inside Pirates of the Caribbean, and if you have tables in a certain area you're pretty much sitting right above people riding on the attraction.  I had jambalaya, which was good but nothing spectacular.

BROKEN-DOWN RIDES:

Tom Sawyer's Treehouse (all morning)
Haunted Mansion (most of the morning)
Star Tours (half of the simulators broken)

[Caliga]

Sunday:

We went to Disney's California Adventure on Monday.  This park is vaguely similar to Disney's Hollywood Studios at Disney World, in that the scenery themes are similar (late 1940s Hollywood) and some of the rides are the same too.

Soarin' Over California:  We rode this twice, once in the morning right after the park opened and once in the late afternoon.  IMO this is the best ride at both parks, and the ride itself is identical except the Disney one is just called 'Soarin', even though the ride's movie is all the same California scenery.  One difference is that the ride's pre-ride music (i.e. music that plays outside and in the inside lines) is... for some strange reason... a mixup between the theme from Patton, and the theme from The Last Starfighter.  It took me a while but I finally recognized the latter theme, and then after we got back to the hotel last night I rented The Last Starfighter from Google Play and made Princesca watch it.

Animation Academy:  Identical to the one at Disney World.  The time we visited there I learned to draw Donald Duck, and this time it was Winnie the Pooh, which is way easier to draw.

Aladdin Musical:  By far the best Disney stage act I've seen at either park.  The dude who played Genie was hilarious and FABULOUS.

Monsters, Inc. ride: Lame.

Muppet Vision 3D:  Funny, and identical to the one at Disney World.

It's Tough To Be a Bug: Similar to the above show, but better.  This was broken when we were at Disney World so it was nice to be able to see it.

Lunch: Chili cheese dog with chips.

Dinner:  Had dinner at Napa Rose.  I had buffalo carpaccio and a beef tenderloin with potato gnocchi and veggies.  Dessert was a Scharffen Berger chocolate pate with chocolate sauce.  It was possibly the best dessert I've ever had in my life.  The carpaccio was also probably the best ever.